Pope Benedict is eager to reach more young people, so he's embracing new technology, including social networking and text messaging.

According to this Reuters article: The Pope will text daily messages of inspiration and hope during the six-day Sydney event while digital prayer walls will be erected at event sites and the church will set up a Catholic social networking Web site akin to a Catholic Facebook.

Wow is he going to get a lot of friend requests. But if he really wants to reach today's kids, he should start talking like them. For his first text, may we suggest: "Jesus luvz u. For realz."

Yesterday, it was announced that Microsoft had bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million, valuing the social utility site at roughly $15 billion. The deal makes geeky twenty-three-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, at least on paper, worth $5 billion. Talk about revenge of the nerds.

Silicon Alley Insider (which we're guessing is also made up of social misfits) says he deserves all this money because of his strategic intelligence. Here's how it's played out:

Facebook began as a Harvard-specific site through which students could rate each other's hotness in Zuckerberg's dorm room (possibly with some other people who have since sued him).

After reportedly almost getting kicked out of school for creating the site, and following the advice of hero Bill Gates, Zuckerberg dropped out to pursue Facebook full-time. Brave!

Zuckerberg raised huge amounts of venture capital and got Facebook to the point where it was being valued in the multi-billions, then turned down a measly $1 billion offer from Yahoo and then sparked a bidding war between Google and Microsoft. Super brave!

And now: ludicrous wealth is his!